[Elecraft] Off-Topic: CW sending vs. recieving speed

Fri Aug 7 14:25:56 EDT 2009

Not always. Even if the Op who answers your call can copy high speed CW, he 
might be replying at slow speed for some good reason such as echo on your 
signal, which can make copy of high speed CW difficult, hoping that you will 
slow down. At this latitude 56N multipath echo occurs quite frequently on 
40m signals from the West Coast. A reply at 15wpm seems to work, but a reply 
at a higher speed can become garbled when echo is present.

FWIW

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD.

> dw wrote:
>
> What's the general consensus?
> Is it logical to assume that a person's CW sending speed approximates
> their copy speed?